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The Lady Refuses

Torn From the Heart of Woman

5.2(21)19311h 12m1

A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.

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English
  • jealousy
  • love triangle
  • self sacrifice
  • man woman relationship
  • murder
  • prostitution
  • pre-code
  • gold digger
  • interclass romance
  • father son relationship
  • melodrama
  • melodramatic

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR8 Mar 1931
    • PhysicalNRBlu-ray21 May 2019
  • CanadaCA

    • TheatricalPG8 Mar 1931

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The Lady Refuses was released on 8 March 1931.

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    CinemaSerf

    3/28/2022

    6/10

    Betty Compson is quite good in this amiable little love-triangle melodrama. She is a lady down on her luck who, in order to avoid the pursuing constabulary, alights on the home of the wealthy "Sir Gerald" (Gilbert Emery). He takes her in, has dinner with her (much to the chagrin of his butler "Dobbs" (Edgar Norton) and the pair begin to bond. He, meantime, has been having some issues with his errant son "Russell" (th…

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